All HARRY CALLAHAN Quotes about “Photography”

“I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.”
“Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.”
“To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.”
“I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you canâ€™t go any further.”
“Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking.”
“A picture is like a prayer.”
“I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.”
“It's the subject matter that counts. I'm interested in revealing the subject in a new way to intensify it. A photo is able to capture a moment that people can't always see.”
“I like the simple things. I don't know why. I'm that way. I came from a simple place.”
“I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking is almost in every way in accord with everyone else. Expression on this basis has become dull to those who wish to think for themselves.”
“I think I came alive when I started photography.”
“The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us.”
“I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find out in one life either.”
“I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.”
“The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but ones that are different because the individual is different and the individual expresses himself.”
“A picture is like a prayer; you're offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense it's like a gift of God because you have practically no control-at least I don't.”
“I photograph continuously, often without a good idea or strong feelings. During this time the photos are nearly all poor, but I believe they develop my seeing and help later on in other photos. I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.”

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